John Rink is Professor of Music in the Cambridge Faculty of Music, and Fellow in Music at St John's College. He studied at Princeton University, King's College London, and the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research was on the evolution of tonal structure in Chopin's early music and its relation to improvisation. He specialises in the fields of performance studies, nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin), theory and analysis, and digital musicology, and has published six books with Cambridge University Press. Rink is Editor-in-Chief of The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition, and directs two other research projects: Chopin's First Editions Online (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and Online Chopin Variorum Edition (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).